The University of Pavia in Italy has asked Gulu University to support a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) capacity-building programme aimed at training specialists in Northern Uganda, a region where no medical facility currently provides MRI services.
The initiative seeks to address a long-standing gap in diagnostic imaging, which forces patients from Gulu and neighbouring districts to travel to Kampala for scans—an expensive and often impossible journey for peasant farmers and low-income families recovering from years of conflict.
A team of MRI experts led by Prof. Neil Scolding, a visiting professor at Gulu University’s Faculty of Medicine from Bristol University in the United Kingdom, and Prof. Claudia Gandini Wheeler from the University of Pavia, met Gulu University’s management on November 14, 2025, to present the proposal.
The team intends to secure funding from the Italian Cooperation to train Trainers of Trainers (ToT) in MRI operation at Gulu University. The programme is also expected to support the acquisition of the university’s first MRI machine through the Faculty of Medicine.
Gulu University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George Ladaah Openjuru, welcomed the proposal and assured the delegation of the institution’s commitment to the partnership. “Whatever the partnership requires, the university shall be able to comply,” he said.
If approved, the project will mark a major step in decentralising advanced diagnostic services and strengthening medical training in Northern Uganda.
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